I think the intent is that metallic hydrogen alone is the fuel, as a metastable way of storing some fraction of atomic hydrogen recombination energy. H + H -> H2 at 52,000K
> On Jan 26, 2017, at 20:51 , Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Makes no sense. Isp it just exhaust velocity which depends on the energy > release per molecule of the combustion products. The energy per H2O molecule > isn't going to be any different when the H came from metallic instead of > liquid hydrogen. Having metallic hydrogen might make the rocket structurally > more compact and lighter, but don't see how it can raise the combustion > temperature of the Isp. > > Brent > > On 1/26/2017 4:24 PM, Hans Moravec wrote: >> Something like antimatter propulsion, but much easier? >> >> Metallic hydrogen: The most powerful rocket fuel >> http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/215/1/012194/meta >> >> Hydrogen Squeezed Into a Metal, Possibly Solid, Harvard Physicists Say >> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/science/solid-metallic-hydrogen-harvard-physicists.html >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
